Jaycee Dugard was a regular 11 year old girl living in South Lake Tahoe, California. But, one day as she was outside of her home when two strangers asked her for directions on the side of a road. Seconds later she was shot with a stun gun. She instantly went numb and fell into the bushes. A man then rushed out of the car and abducted her.…
On June 10, 1991 in California, a girl named Jayce Dugard was kidnapped at the age of 11 years old. She was abducted while she was walking home from a school bus stop. Jayce was brought to Phillip Gardios house, where he kept her in tents, shed and lean to’s in his own back yard. She endured harsh sexual assault resulting in the birth of two children. This story relates closely to the imprisonment of Ma and Jack.…
LEO FRANK Last night, August, 16, 1915, Leo frank was lynched by the prominent citizens of Marietta. Leo frank was put into court after the murder of Mary Phagan, the child of tenant farmers who had moved to Atlanta for financial gain. Mary Went to Frank’s pencil factory to get her $1.20 that he’d owe her from the twelve hours she worked that week. Frank was the last person to see her alive.…
The FBI arrived in Kansa City and started questioning everyone. They started with the cab driver, Willard Person Creech, first because he was the last one who had seen this little boy alive. He continued to tell the specialists that a bit before 11 o’clock on the 28th day of September, the woman cab driver to drive her to the school. He gave a description and a sketch of her was made. As the cab pulled up to the school, she told Mr. Creech not to leave because she needed him to drive her to a drug store.…
In Grandview, Idaho there lived three teenagers, Cody, Clayton, and Cole Wright they are all cousins that would rodeo. Cody and Clayton are nineteen years old, and Cole is eighteen years old. Clayton’s junior and senior year of high school he took first place in the High School Rodeo National Finals in the bull riding and now has qualified for the NFR ( National Finals Rodeos ) in Las Vegas coming in second place in the world. Cody as qualified for the NFR two years in row but coming in First place in the world leading the average. Cole is a rookie, fresh outta high school.…
I can recall it being around Christmas and seeing her face all over the television. Hearing her name come out of everyone’s mouth. On the Eastern Shore, crime and violence make up the daily life. A local devastating murder of Sarah Foxwell took the whole Eastern Shore by surprise because she was so young, she was only in the sixth grade when she was tragically raped and murdered by a familiar face in her family, Thomas Leggs. There was more to Sarah’s life than just being a victim of kidnaping and murder.…
Ten: Bedlam in Berlin The silence in the basement was disrupted by air raid sirens which roared out in the distance. Anna gritted her teeth and rehearsed acting brave and Willy sat still, not wanting to move. They could hear the deafening bombs being dropped from planes overhead and carpeting the city. The air in the basement became thick, and they, both began to cough and gasp for air.…
In May of 1885, Eliza Shelby went to bed with her three sons. The following morning, the family she worked for heard screams coming from the small servant’s house Shelby lived in. When the master of the house went to investigate, he found Eliza on the ground with her brain oozing out of her skull. When examined further by the police, they found a hole in her head and multiple stab wounds all across her body. This time there were footprints and one of the boys saw the attacker.…
She met another woman, Deirdre Enright, who was a professor for Law at the University of Virginia. She and her team take on a case that police have thrown away and go into all the…
Imagine a city full of grieving parents haunted by regret. Imagine wanting everything missing found—peace of mind included. No, you do not want to imagine yourself as a child or a parent in Atlanta from 1979-1981 because this was the time of the Atlanta Child Murders. Tayari Jones’ novel, Leaving Atlanta, retells this unsettling time from the perspective of three adolescents: Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green, and Octavia…
Thirteen-year-old Christine Conroy mysteriously disappeared from her back yard in Maryville, East Oregon. Folks think Christine’s just another runaway, but there are people in the small country town who know what happened and are determined to hide the truth. Forty years later, warrior angel, Justice Smith is sent to Earth to solve Christine’s disappearance. Not an easy task after so much time has elapsed.…
It is difficult to decide where the rights of one citizen stop, and the rights of all other citizens begin. In the case of Mary Mallon, health care officials placed the greater good of the population above the rights of an individual, for the right reasons. However, officials at the New York City Health Department went about it in the wrong way. I do not think Mary should have been kept in isolation for the rest of her life. However, I do believe she was given a fair chance at a normal life when she was told to stop cooking.…
Summary Jenna Fox, a seventeen-year-old girl from Boston has recently been in a terrible accident. The book opens on a Jenna that is waking from a year-long coma. She has no memory of her life, family, or the accident. She wakes up in a home in California, that she lives in with her mother and grandmother, Lily. Jenna feels that Lily does not like her, and this troubles her.…
THE CASE AGAINST RALPH ARMSTRONG In late 2015, Wisconsin’s criminal justice came to the fore of the nation’s public consciousness with the Making a Murderer documentary series. The series detailed the handling of Steven Avery’s murder case in 2007 and how it related to his exoneration in an earlier wrongly convicted rape case in 1985. Both of his cases fell under a heavy cloud of doubt in the veracity of the investigation, the validity of the charges against him and the trial that imprisoned him.…
Theodore Robert Cowell or as many people would refer to him as Ted Bundy, was a notorious serial killer and rapist who was born on November 24th 1946 and was executed by an electric chair on January 24th 1989. Ted 's ' mother Eleanor Louise Cowell gave birth to him in Burlington, Vermont. When Ted was born, Eleanor left Ted for three months and returned to Philadelphia. Later, Teds ' grandparents pretended to adopt Ted and said that Eleanor was his sister. Many people believed that Bundy was a child from incest and that his grandfather Sam Cowell was his biological father.…